Mar 20 2014 Eng 11 SEI

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Daily Learning Target(s): By the end of the week, students will be able to...

  • analyze literature as evidenced by completing and presenting an independent poetry project.
  • practice the skill of description and analysis as evidenced by writing journal entries for the junior portfolio.
Homework Due Today:

Homework:

  • Due Fri 3/21: Catalog Poem Project
  • Due Fri 3/21: VER- Flashcards/Study for Quiz
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Important Deadlines/Reminders:
  1. Bring silent work to complete on Wednesday block day.
  2. Have handouts, binder paper, journals, writing utensils, and classwork with you every day

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  • How is personal narrative writing important to the junior portfolio?
Agenda
  1. Learning Logs: Update every day with homework, reminders, and essential questions.
  2. Journals: "Appearances"
    1. Title, Date.
    2. Write for the entire time, keep your pencil/pen moving.
    3. Write a full page or more.
    4. Count your words and put the total at the top.

We all tend to judge people by their appearances, even though looks can be deceiving.
Have you ever prejudged someone incorrectly based on their appearance or has someone ever prejudged you unfairly based on how you look?

  1. Junior Portfolios- Folders and Information
  2. "I Hear America Singing" Catalog Poem Project-
    1. Read and annotate Whitman's poem
    2. Read Langston Hughes's "I Too Hear America Singing", annotate to compare
    3. Write and illustrate your own catalogue poem